It could be further argued that, though several other research studies have shown a positive influence of formal education on the utilization of ANC, our contrary results from this study could be due to how education was measured.
The objective of this manuscript was to describe whether there was an association between seniority and dictation lengths and the effect of education on dictation utilization in a clinical department at an academic health science center.
Chakraborty et al. (2002), for example, found no significant effect of education or distance on utilization of health services during the postnatal period [ 39].
Influence of parental education on ANC service utilization is well documented [ 19].
Additional research is needed on the effects of maternal education on preventive health utilization patterns for Medicaid-enrolled infants.
Still, the effect of social class including education on health services utilization has been shown to differ between consultations at specialists and primary care physicians [ 7, 10].
*p <.05 ** p <.01 ***p <.001 Reference Categories: Non-Hispanic White; Stable Insurance The predisposing characteristics of gender, race/ethnicity, and education had significant effects on utilization of any health services.
These results have been consistently supported by many other studies which showed a positive influence of education on maternal health service utilization [ 14, 20- 22].
Studies assessing the influence of education on recall in drug utilization have concluded that agreement between questionnaires and information retrieved from record data increases with education [ 21, 22], although less educated subjects tend to use medicines more than better educated ones [ 1].
Secondary and above level of husband's education was also observed to have a significant influence on utilization of family planning methods [AOR = 2.98, 95 % CI (1.49, 5.97)].
